Late Actor RJ Helped Roll Up Red Carpet at His Own Premiere, Friend Reveals

TMZ
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Oct 16, 2026
As people headed into the theater,
the man who was breaking down the red carpet kind
of got into a little struggle
because the carpet got twisted up, and there was cords
in it, and he couldn't get everything together,
and he was kind of stressing out about it.
And without a moment's hesitation,
before I even realized what was happening, there's
RJ, dressed in his finest,
crouched down on his knees on the sidewalk, helping to untangle
the wires and straighten the carpet so it could be rolled up.
And I had a laugh at the irony of it.
Here's R.J. Mitty, the star of the movie,
on a sidewalk in Beverly Hills,
helping someone roll up the red carpet with the giant step
and repeat behind with his name all over it
and a marquee with his name on top of it.
It made me smile because typically R.J., he didn't care.
If someone needed something,
he was right there and he thought nothing of it.
